The Aftermath

God definitely played a BIG role in our wedding day.
We wouldn't have the perfect party with our budget, yet He kept His promise. He gave us the most beautiful wedding we could ask for. It wasn't glamorous and extravagant, but it was intimate, warm and beautiful.
With help from our friends, our dream came true. :)

Some of our friends said that the party was very enjoyable and smooth. Indra's colleagues told him many many times that they really enjoyed the ceremony. They said the ceremony was beautiful, simple and 'different'. They were also touched by Pastor D's message. These things matter a lot for us, how people enjoy our wedding.

At night, after the reception, before we go to bed, me and Indra prayed together. On our knees, we cried forever thankful to God for the perfect day that we had. Men can predict the weather but God own and creates the weather.
My colleague who attended the church ceremony said that the weather was weird that day. She lives in Mt.Hawthorn which is close to the city and she said she had a physio class that morning and it was raining heavily. She was driving 30km/ph and used the fastest wiper. She said for some reason, that morning, the rain was coming down around Perth city but not in city area. And, i just praised the Lord in my heart, THANK YOU GOD..THANK YOU!!!

Whenever we were outside that day, the rain seemed to stop. Before the ceremony, the rain stopped and we had no trouble getting out of the car. But it was raining once we started the ceremony. When we finished the ceremony, we gathered around outside the church and it was sunny, we took pictures with guests for about 1 hour.
When we had the photo session, the rain stopped all the way until we finished.
And the rain started again at night when we had the reception which made the atmosphere even better inside the function room, i think.

We found out that God gave us a bigger wedding present on top of the good weather. Remember in my previous post, God gave us a new challenge, a big one? Yup that's the one. Few months before the wedding, God opened an opportunity for us. We've been thinking of getting a new house for investment, we were not sure whether to build or to buy. In saying this, it doesnt mean that we have a lot of spare cash, but we thought we need to grow and expand. By God's grace we bought the current house at the perfect time, therefore we have enough equity on this house to grow our investment. If we see it from human's eyes, this step is ridiculous, there is no way that we can afford it.

We found a block of land with a good price and it's not far from where we live now. We were so excited about it. But we didn't want to make a stupid decision. So we prayed to God, we decided to try and let God do the rest. We surrendered averything to God, if we are not capable of taking this opportunity, we ask God to just close the doors and we will be happy to wait for the next challenge.

I forgot to mention that our hobby is visiting display homes hehehe..we loves beautiful houses and i spent my money on house magazines instead of clothing :P. There is one house that we really love, it's not too big, it has open living plan, with less walls and very very homey. I dont know how many times we've gone to that display house, until i remember every details of that house hahaha...

Weeks after weeks, God opened the doors one by one. Sometimes we still couldn't believe it. Until, few days after the wedding, the broker told us that the mortgage was granted without any problem and no mortgage insurance needed. He also enabled us to build the house that we love, the display home that we visited so many times!!!
I couldn't contain my excitement and happiness. I know this is not gonna be easy, but God has opened the way, He will provide what we need.

Now we are in the process of getting our Schengen Visa to go to Italy. It takes 2-3 weeks, and we are not sure whether we can get it on time, because im going back to Indo on the 12th. Even if the visa is ready before that, we wouldn't have enough time to get the Switzerland visa. Not sure what's gonna happen, but we keep praying.
Me and Indra have been staying in Australia for quite sometime, but we've never been anywhere. We saved all our money for the wedding, now that the wedding is over, we would like to have a proper honeymoon. We want to go to Europe. This would be our first trip overseas besides Indo, Singapore and Australia. Hope the visa will be ready soon.

*God...a BIG thanks from us, we love You*